poetry
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Half myself
I live in this world where I am constantly holding back never saying what I want to say for fear of making others mad I wish I were braver that I could say the truth to people I want to but I don’t think they’d even listen to me No one listens to me I… Read more
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We have always been villains
We were the ones writing the history books shaping it with our media history has been our narrative yet we have forgotten to look at the history of ourselves our first President had teeth made from slaves We are not the heroes we have made ourselves out to be We have always been villains it… Read more
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Poetry My Family Will Hate #2
I only talked about it once then never again and the truth of it is a relationship sounds like a nightmare to me I know too much about power dynamics guns in the bottoms of wells hidden bank accounts punched holes in walls and birth control messed with men leaving a woman with seven mouths… Read more
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In spaces no one wants me
And I am basic Existing in the smallness of what little security I have Alone in my little apartment I think of revolutions without doing a single thing I think of women that came before me that shook the worlds around them painting when the world told them not to educating themselves in a world… Read more
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What if I were
What if I were a little bit bolder? What if I were a little bit meaner? And I don’t even mean meaner I simply mean being direct What if I took as much as a man? Swore as much as a man? Was as angry as a man? What then? Would I reach my full… Read more
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Poetry my family will hate #1
Did you think about me in your secret keeping Do you not speak to me now because it’s hard to watch me unraveling as an adult I should be a secure woman in my thirties with a job able to have a family because I let love in instead, I am by myself is that… Read more
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They’d rather be evil instead
They used $22.Billion to bomb school children all to get the gas prices down and they’ll say it’s money well spent Saw six potholes today in my town that haven’t been fixed for years I know a lot of the kids at the high school in my neighborhood have lunch debt and won’t afford college… Read more
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Why do we keep doing this?
Another protestor arrested A marine core veteran Brian McGuinness The people who do not want war are not the problem the people making it are But you don’t see anyone arresting them No one cares what’s a couple of dead school children? The protestors are angry, and violent Obviously, they’re the problem One, two, three,… Read more